On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM, C. <codest...@osunix.org> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> C. wrote: >> >> Do you know how many patches Sun maintains for packages that are never >> accepted by upstream because they don't agree with the design or >> implementation? >> >> I can tell you with certainty that Sun works hard to ensure contributions >> go upstream, it's ultimately less work for them and less code to maintain. > > Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the ground up is *less* work > than maintaining the patches. Did someone tell you this or did you come up > with this on your own? Knowing you're a contributor to the pkg5 team makes > you a bit biased, but try to separate your job from reality and stay on the > point here..
It seem "./C" never wrote perl scripts to (auto-apply- and) maintain patches. I also wonder which package manager he wrote from ground up. I only see him talking about existing stuff like Smart and pkgcore. If you want to see how it looks like, if something worthwhile is being written from scratch, either look at IPS on the one hand, or on Moinak's blog on the other. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
